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Monday, April 27, 2009

Musical Matters, Again

The Chronicle's secret Thrashers message board operatives tell me there's been a lot of discussion over there lately about the Thrashers' skate-out music, the possibility of finding a good song to play when they skate out, etc.

Might as well throw in my Eskimo pence.

I hear that some people have suggested Mastodon. Your Chronicle editor isn't the metal fan he was at 13, but he respects innovative, imaginative, intelligent music of any kind, and that certainly describes Mastodon. Plus they're local and rumored to be Thrash fans, so hooray! I wouldn't be against a Mastodon skate-out song. A brief note: their latest album is apparently a concept record about Czarist Russia, and there's a 10-minute-plus song on it titled--you guessed it--"The Czar."

Meanwhile, might I also suggest another song by another popular and critically-lauded Atlanta musical act?

It's famous, freaky, and fun. And extremely high energy. I see no downside. There's even a mention of a "net" somewhere in there.

And goals? I'm a huge fan of Blur, and I love the fact that the arena folks play "Song 2" after most goals, even if it is one of Blur's least interesting songs. For an occasional change of pace, might I suggest these locals be played when one of our boys buries the puck?

Radiohead's Bodysnatchers is pretty damn awesome too. "National Anthen" I'm totally with that. When the radio samples come in then that killer bass line, hell yeh. Maybe we can get Radiohead to just arena music. I also think the Arcade Fire would be good like "Keep The Car Running" or "Wake Up"